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Several moves are possible from a back-to-back position. The parties can step apart to duel, which will bring serious consequences. Or they can turn to face each other, but not shake hands. Or best of all, they can make a quarter turn and then walk together in the same direction...
...odds with the dictates of strict moral and social codes. Repression begun at home found reinforcement in Roman Catholicism, petit bourgeois convention, and French society as a whole. Slowly, painfully, an older reflecting narrator comes to terms with her past; only in middle age can she begin to shake off the constrictions of family, religion, and class...
...will Jackson's publicity bonanza produce enough votes to shake up the Democratic race seriously? Many political experts had doubts. "Jesse can get every political prisoner released in the world, and he can't be nominated," contended Joe Reed, chairman of the all-black Alabama Democratic Conference, which has endorsed Mondale for President and Jackson for Vice President. Jackson, naturally, took a more upbeat view. "God will provide," he said. "Who could have ever imagined that there would be a black pilot from Portsmouth, N.H., being held in a jail in Damascus?" His plans to hold a political...
...also possible that the most recent attacks were the work of the militant Shi'ite Islamic Jihad group. Ten days before the latest bombings, those extremists warned that unless the U.S. and French withdrew from Lebanon before the new year, they would "make the ground shake under their feet...
...Beating up anybody who picks on Wayne." But to date he has been held back, despite himself, by an essentially peaceful nature and snug gloves. A formidable if not imposing 6 ft. 1 in., 185 Ibs., Kurri has yet to appear in a fight. "My gloves won't shake off," he moans...